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US 8,908,826 B2Granted
Method and system unit for stereoscopic x-ray imaging
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsPhilipp Bernhardt, Martin Spahn
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Abstract
A method for stereoscopic x-ray imaging by a stereoscopic x-ray tube and by an x-ray radiation detector is provided. The x-ray radiation detector has a buffer. The stereoscopic x-ray tube has two x-ray beam sources disposed a short distance from one another. 2D image datasets are acquired at relatively short intervals one after the other, which have good quality.
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A method for stereoscopic x-ray imaging by a stereoscopic x-ray tube comprising a first and a second x-ray beam sources and by an x-ray radiation detector, comprising:
- disposing the first and the second x-ray beam sources at a distance from one another;
- converting x-ray beam quanta striking the x-ray radiation detector by a scintillator disposed on the x-ray radiation detector;
- arranging a grid of detector units on the x-ray radiation detector, each detector unit having a light-sensitive receiver at which a measurement value is changed by light quanta striking the light-sensitive receiver, and each detector unit having a buffer for the measurement value read out from the light-sensitive receiver;
- the method further comprising steps of:
- resetting measurement values in light-sensitive receivers to a predefined value;
- emitting a first x-ray radiation from the first x-ray beam source passing through an image object before striking the x-ray radiation detector;
- reading the measurement values out from the light-sensitive receivers into associated buffers;
- resetting the measurement values in the light-sensitive receivers to the predefined value;
- emitting a second x-ray radiation from the second x-ray beam source passing through the image object before striking the x-ray radiation detector;
- reading the measurement values out from the buffers into a central memory;
- generating a first x-ray image dataset from a projection direction of the first x-ray beam source;
- reading the measurement values out from the light-sensitive receivers into the central memory;
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- generating a second x-ray image dataset from a projection direction of the second x-ray beam source.
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